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Title: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: rJCaiG on August 09, 2009, 09:32:29 am
Anyone ever heard of "Tomorrow when the war began"?
You have now. It's a book series based on an invasion of Australia by a foreign power and how 8 school children band up together to take them on in guerilla-type warfare.
Here's a synopsis of the book series:
Click (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_series)

Well, anyway, last week my mum got a visitor..it was the Assistant Location Manager, Edward Donovan.
He basically asked her if the balcony we have overlooking the street it's being filmed in could be used as a prop, as in, put shit up there to make the scene a bit more fitting. It's a really old colonial street that used to be a prime shipping spot back in the early 1800s, late 1790s, right next to a river that runs the length of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

I'll be using my phone to periodically take pictures and video of this film as it progresses. I'll post the pics/vids as I take them.

I'll edit the post with more info as I get it, as the Assistant Location Manager has asked to speak to my mum at a later date. I'm also planning on making shitloads of noise so they come and pay me to stop, so to make that work I'm just hoping my mum doesn't sign any agreements to limit noise or anything.

Also, links for you non-beleivers:
Click (http://www.webwombat.com.au/entertainment/movies/news-tomorrow-when-the-war-began-movie.htm)
Click (http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/news_and_events/2009/mr_090616_approvals.asp)
Click (http://www.tomorrow-movies.com/the-movies/)
None of those say anything about the location of the filming, so consider yourselves lucky.
Title: "Tomorrow when the war began"
Post by: Thomas 'Leroy' Crof on August 09, 2009, 09:58:06 am
HAHA! Do you really think they're dumb enough to pay you to make you shut up?! hahah.... ROFL! :D
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: rJCaiG on August 09, 2009, 10:10:39 am
They can have my music playing throughout their whole movie then, I don't care :)
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Lamar Diasso on August 09, 2009, 10:40:05 am
Lucky you. But damn it ain't one of those very, very popular movies.
Make yourself visible in somehow, I beg you! They cannot force you to leave, neither call the police or something.
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Sharphis on August 09, 2009, 10:54:15 am
There is a movie being filmed in my small town. I've taken part in it, don't know how it is called in English, but I've been one of the people that just 'are the background' :P. I've been walking on the streets just behind the main characters etc. Well it's some shitty Polish movie you'll never see, but still, they paid me just for walking, and it was a really nice experience to see how the whole film is being made. The filmmakers have been here for 2 weeks, and they're coming back in the fall, hope I'll be a background guy again :P.
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: rJCaiG on August 09, 2009, 11:09:18 am
Called an extra :D
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Hess on August 09, 2009, 11:15:09 am
I read that book in year 8 or 9... had to write an essay about it :(
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: SargentJosh on August 09, 2009, 02:24:48 pm
that book is SOOOOO old and they make a movie now? LOL! whatafail......

Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

WOOOOOO! Newcastle ftw!
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: tiderman on August 09, 2009, 02:54:40 pm
Sweet. Throw rotten potatoes on the actors. Or do you get paid, good?

that book is SOOOOO old and they make a movie now? LOL! whatafail......
cough Lord of the Rings cough
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: SargentJosh on August 09, 2009, 03:29:12 pm
cough Lord of the Rings cough

Cough - hate that movie so i dont really care
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: TruthSvensson on August 09, 2009, 03:32:40 pm
Cough - hate that movie so i dont really care
the point is not you hating the movie but the book is from 1940's i guess. also HOW DARE YOU HATE LOTR  :mad:
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: SargentJosh on August 09, 2009, 03:36:13 pm
What you gonna do about it eh?
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: TruthSvensson on August 09, 2009, 03:41:19 pm
Lol that was a joke dont be so mean
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: MichaelW on August 09, 2009, 08:13:07 pm
Wow, you have a real talent at reposting forum threads made by others (http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=788952), don't you?
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Miami on August 09, 2009, 08:34:09 pm
For those who live in the UK, the program 'The Bill' gets filmed in my area, and many times of the year on my road  :)
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Julian on August 09, 2009, 08:38:56 pm
There was a shitty swedish show filmed in my school and around in Gothenburg, it's called 'Andra Avenyn' and was a reeeaallly sucky show.
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Dr J. Cohen on August 09, 2009, 08:39:10 pm
For those who live in the UK, the program 'The Bill' gets filmed in my area, and many times of the year on my road  :)

omg cool
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Dave on August 09, 2009, 09:39:52 pm
Cough - hate that movie so i dont really care

Lord of the Rings was an amazing achievement for Tolkien, he was an amazing writer and The Hobbit an The Lord of the Rings Trilogy open a huge door to begin the construction of a new world straight from his imagination, so don't disrespect one of the greatest writers ever :D
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Mr. Goobii on August 09, 2009, 10:03:25 pm
that is awesome man!  :D
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Boxy on August 10, 2009, 03:25:59 am
A scene of Transformers 2 was shot in an used-to-be world class steel factory, which I live near.
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Squeak on August 10, 2009, 06:49:26 am
Giac, you should kill them all with fire. Wind up on the History Channel 5 years later. :D
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Boozman on August 10, 2009, 07:27:36 am
nice :D
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Peter_John on August 10, 2009, 08:00:09 am
omg cool
COOL!!!
What about the illegal immigrants one when they bomb the Flat
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Altair_Carter on August 10, 2009, 08:34:27 am
Wow, you have a real talent at reposting forum threads made by others (http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=788952), don't you?
LOL, WORD IN WORD!!! Any explanations, giac?
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: rJCaiG on August 10, 2009, 08:56:01 am
That's me. Want me to edit the first post?

Post Merge: August 10, 2009, 08:56:42 am
First post is edited. Go check it :)
All my other accounts on that forum got permabanned, and I really didn't want people to know I was GiacJr due to privacy issues.
Guess I have no choice now hey
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: tiderman on August 10, 2009, 12:06:59 pm
Cough - hate that movie so i dont really care
Well, it's not a.. fail... AND the movie is made like sixty years after the book... hmm.. How can this be possible?! UGGH MY BRAINS!!!
There was a shitty swedish show filmed in my school and around in Gothenburg, it's called 'Andra Avenyn' and was a reeeaallly sucky show.
LOL everyone in my class watched this show and thought it was great so I decided to watch an episode and see what they said was really true and uhh.. I made it to the first commercial..
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Alsatian on August 10, 2009, 06:16:12 pm
Nice Giac.

As someone posted on that other forum.

"Run onto the set naked and wave your d*ck around"

 :D
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: schfifty on August 10, 2009, 07:22:57 pm
this sounds a lot like Red Dawn. I encourage all of you to watch Red Dawn, unless you are russian, then you may find it offensive :/
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: tiderman on August 10, 2009, 07:41:17 pm
this sounds a lot like Red Dawn. I encourage all of you to watch Red Dawn, unless you are russian, then you may find it offensive :/
Why would someone get offended by a movie?
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: TruthSvensson on August 10, 2009, 11:43:58 pm
Why would someone get offended by a movie?
I guess its like, arabs would get offended by '' Postal The Movie ''
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: schfifty on August 11, 2009, 08:00:49 pm
Why would someone get offended by a movie?

The Russians invade a utah town, high schoolers start killing a ton of them. It is very anti soviet union.
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: tiderman on August 11, 2009, 08:10:27 pm
The Russians invade a utah town, high schoolers start killing a ton of them. It is very anti soviet union.
Yeah - but it's a movie. Fiction. :(
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: rJCaiG on September 21, 2009, 01:13:11 am
Just an update on this, I can hear the machines in the street making stuff now. I'm taking pictures of everything new they do. When I get to my dads house on friday, i'll upload them because i'm on limited internet here at my mums.

Post Merge: September 21, 2009, 02:11:13 am
There's about 50 people standing on the street all with scripts in their hands and there are BMWs rolling up and down the street.
This is exciting :O
Title: Re: A movie is being filmed in my street
Post by: Hircine on September 23, 2009, 02:22:06 am
There's were a few movies/TV shows shot in my town.

Plus we're hosting the G20 summit, I get off school and shit, but seems to be causing a shitload of problems because you need like photo ID to be in certain areas downtown.
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